Reading a good long novel is in many ways like having a long and satisfying affair

Fantasy has a better chance of lasting than a lot of other things. The Hobbit and the Narnia books, they seem to get handed down father to son, mother to daughter. Because they're set in a fantasy world, they can remain relevant.

There is no such thing as a happy ending. I never met a single one to equal "Once upon a time.

I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.

I always drank, from when it was legal for me to drink. And there was never a time for me when the goal wasn't to get as hammered as I could possibly afford to. I never understood social drinking, that's always seemed to me like kissing your sister.

The multiple choices of possibilities of daily life are the music we dance to.

Sometimes stories cry out to be told in such loud voices that you write them just to shut them up.